Imaginative Arts Apprentice

 Imaginative Arts Apprentice

It's your lucky day!  There is no homework!

Just Kidding!

Study/Learn:

1. Chose one of these questions to answer in our book discussion, or write a question of your own and answer it.

1. If the characters stood for particular virtues (like in the medieval allegorical sense), what would each of the main characters represent?

2. What makes Buttercup discover she’s in love with the farm boy she had previously overlooked?

3. There’s much emphasis on whether women are “beautiful” or not. How do you feel about that? What implications does that have?

4. When Vizzini says, “He didn’t fall? INCONCEIVABLE,” Inigo Montoya replies, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” How is Vizzini using the word “inconceivable?” What does it actually mean?

5. Why did Fezzik, Inigo, and Vizzini try to murder Buttercup at first but then later help her and Wesley?

6. Prince Humperdinck built a Zoo of Death. What is significant about the fifth level? How would you characterize the Prince’s brand of sadism (feeling pleasure from inflicting pain on others) and the sadism of Count Rugen and his life-sucking machine? Is evil necessary to the universe of a fairytale?

7. What does this book tell us about the nature of reading, writing and literature in general?

8. Goldman says Morgenstern’s original work is a satire (the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule to expose and deride vice or folly). Give examples of this from the text.

9. Watch the film version of The Princess Bride and then compare it to the book. Keep in mind that Goldman wrote the screenplay for the movie. Do you agree or disagree with the changes he made? 

2. I know I said we would skip the spelling bee, but I have since decided that we will do it.  We will break into 2 or 3 groups, so you will get more words to spell.  So... Study!

Know/Understand:

1. Come in clothes that can get dirty and with good shoes.

2. Please bring a shovel or 2/group.  You will be digging up the artifacts that we buried last month.  You will have time to start deciphering what you have found.

3. Archaeological excavation is the procedure by which archaeologists define, retrieve, and record cultural and biological remains found in the ground. Past activities leave traces in the form of house foundations, graves, artifacts, bones, seeds, and numerous other traces indicative of human experience.

It is important for us to remember that as we dig, we do not want to destroy anyones culture.  

4. Get with one other person and learn about one of these archaeological excavations.  You will do a brief (like 2 minutes or less) presentation about it.  We won't have time for more than that, so I will cut you off after 2 minutes.  Basically, you just need to share the highlights with us.

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Pompeii

Tutankhamun's Tomb

Rosetta Stone

Terracotta Army

Richard III's Grave

Olduvai Gorge

Cave of Altamira

Dead Sea Scrolls

Easter Island Moai

Staffordshire Hoard

Become/Serve:

This week is St. Patrick's Day.  If you haven't noticed, the blog is green and I wore green to class on Thursday.  This doesn't really mean anything; but it does mean that there is a holiday coming up and even though it's one of those arbitrary holidays, it's a great chance to get out and serve someone.  Make someone's day by taking them some cookies, or some other homemade gift.